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Show Ways of Devil-Worshipers. Worshipers of Baal and or the 'Devil are still found in one of the Turkish prov- iicefl writes an army officer who has lived among them. The Teitldees, or devil worshipers, are an extraordinary people: and although forced by "the laws of conscription con-scription to Hervc In tho Ottoman army, the seizure of one or more of their yountr men by a Turkish recruiting partv Is such a distressing spectacle that, ohco witnessed, wit-nessed, it can never bf forgotten Walls and yells of despair are raised Men, women and girls kiss the recruit's eyes checks, mouth and hands. Throwing Throw-ing themselves on the ground, they even embrace IiIh legs and foot. Tho conscript appears qulto dazed with sorrow. Ho foldfl in his arms and caresses Jhnrma7d 'mr :,paln llls weP'nff kindred, whom he will never seo again. He kisses the walls and tho hearth of the cabin in which he was born, but which ho is about to quit forever,. and, wets them with his tears, but when, accompanied bv his Turkish captors, he leaves the village lamentations of the villagers cease. ' Then, and as though nothing had happened, hap-pened, the latler go about their ordinary occupatlona. Never again is the con-' scripts namo mentioned; and on Joining his regiment, the young Yozidee becomes a Mussulman. His kindred, believing him accursed, affect to forget him; and were he to approach tho village from which ho hns been forcibly dragged aWay. every Tezidee. even his dParcst friends, hla father, fath-er, mother, brothers, sisters and sweetheart, sweet-heart, would drive him from their presence pres-ence with curses, and pelt him with stonoa, |